Education
2015-2021 Vanderbilt University, Biological Sciences, PhD
2013-2015 Auburn University, Entomology, MS
2009-2013 China Agricultural University, Plant Protection, BS
Work Experience
2023-prenset Guizhou Normal University, Lecturer
2023-present Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Assistant Researcher
2021-2022 Crown Bioscience, Scientist
Publications (*co-first author)
• Ye, Z.*, Liu, F.*, Sun, H., Ferguson, S.T., Baker, A., Ochieng, S.A., and Zwiebel, L.J. (2022). Discrete roles of Ir76b ionotropic coreceptor impact olfaction, blood feeding, and mating in the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles coluzzii. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119, e2112385119.
• Ye, Z.*, Liu, F.*, Ferguson, S.T., Baker, A., Pitts, R.J., and Zwiebel, L.J. (2021). Ammonium transporter AcAmt mutagenesis uncovers reproductive and physiological defects without impacting olfactory responses to ammonia in the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles coluzzii. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 134, 103578.
• Ye, Z., Liu, F., and Liu, N. (2021). Three-dimensional structure of the antennal lobe in the southern house mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus. Insect Sci. 28, 93–102.
• Ye, Z., Liu, F., Sun, H., Barker, M., Pitts, R.J., and Zwiebel, L.J. (2020). Heterogeneous expression of the ammonium transporter AgAmt in chemosensory appendages of the malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 120, 103360.
• Liu, F.*, Ye, Z.*, Baker, A., Sun, H., and Zwiebel, L.J. (2020). Gene editing reveals obligate and modulatory components of the CO2 receptor complex in the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles coluzzii. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 127, 103470.
• Ye, Z., Liu, F., and Liu, N. (2016). Olfactory responses of southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, to human odorants. Chem. Senses 41, 441–447.